Great job, Mayor Lee
Dear Editor, I wish to wholeheartedly commend the Mayor of Portmore George Lee for the excellent work he is doing in Portmore. We can certainly see the difference. Since the appointment of Mayor Lee,...
View ArticleCongrats, CAC, you perform!
Dear Editor, With respect to the article, "CAC gets more powers to protect public" written by Balford Henry in the Jamaica Observer of October 18, I think the legislators should look at giving the...
View ArticlePlay music responsibly to help stop violence
Dear Editor, I often sit and ponder about our country - the senseless killings, the rape of our women and youngsters of both sexes, the reckless and intimidating driving tactics of our public tranport...
View ArticleShore up the economy with agriculture, oil exploration
Dear Editor, The Jamaican economy is currently supported by four main pillars: tourism,bauxite, agriculture and remittances. Tourism, although an excellent earner of foreign exchange, is very fickle...
View ArticleFootball - let the best man play or coach
Dear Editor, Jamaica, with the help of the USA, narrowly made the final round of the 2014 World Cup qualifiers. This is an achievement worth celebrating because we are now only one round away from...
View ArticleMr Deacon, don't be a slave to propaganda
Dear Editor, I am compelled to respond to Urijah Deacon's letter in the Jamaica Observer of October 22, "Find yourself, Mr Dingwall". Mr Dingwall presented a thoughtful and rational argument to support...
View ArticlePhone awaits resurrection
Dear Editor, I wish to thank LIME for the excellent service they provide to customers. Exactly four weeks ago my home phone went dead. It was promptly reported to the telephone company which inquired...
View ArticleMake tourism work for everybody
Dear Editor, Jamaica has accepted tourism as a major revenue source. The island has been a tourist attraction for more than 50 years. Banking on tourism is not peculiar to Jamaica. Much of the...
View ArticleEOJ has no headaches
Dear Editor, The Electoral Office wishes to state categorically that it is having no headaches over the 2011 census report as stated in the Jamaica Observer of October 23. The office is in no position...
View ArticleReturn confidence to the justice system
Dear Editor, Why are we surprised at the upsurge in mob or vigilante killings? We have a justice system that is in tatters, cases take years to be tried and sometimes witnesses migrate or die from...
View ArticleJamaica is like a woman scorned
Dear Editor, Jamaica can be likened to a woman who has been caught in a cruel cycle of being used, abused and refused by every man that she dates, and helplessly continues to go back to one or another...
View ArticleFix the roads
Dear Editor, The purpose of this letter is to bring to public attention a pothole on Tobago Avenue in New Kingston which almost caused the collapse of the front end of my car on Saturday evening. That...
View ArticleTake the pink out of football
Dear Editor, This concerns football and the pink awareness campaign against breast cancer in America. Football, like other sports has become too commercialised and dominated by special interest groups...
View ArticleGet on with the country's development
Dear Editor, As I read your piece, "Residents triumph over developer", in the online version of the Jamaica Observer on October 20, I couldn't help but muse on how strange the thinking of some of our...
View ArticleFight childhood obesity
Dear Editor, The prevalence of childhood obesity in Jamaica should be a worrying concern for well-thinking Jamaicans. It is estimated that 20 per cent of children aged three and four years old, 11 per...
View ArticleAre we under judgement?
Dear Editor, Rev Mary Wildish-Reece wrote a full-page edict in one of our daily papers a few weeks prior to the last general election with some of the following excerpts: "The Lord said... Jamaica is...
View ArticleEating our way to economic prosperity
Dear Editor, Everyone is talking about the sorry economic plight of Jamaica. And sorry it is indeed. The public debt is fast approaching twice the total value of all goods and services produced on the...
View ArticleUse cards to collect bus fare
Dear Editor, I read the news recently of a conductor being kicked from a coaster bus, after he asked a man for his fare. Then he was hit by a passing vehicle and died as a result. This is brutual and...
View ArticleThe prayer that didn't work
Dear Editor, This is a prayer for Jamaica: Dear Lord, we know we have sinned and have not utilised our natural resources and the talent of our people in a sustainable manner to enhance the earth from...
View ArticleMake evacuation a must
Dear Editor, One is understanding of the economic percussive which supposedly underpins the decisions of many of my fellow Jamaicans to build houses near areas of parlous uncertainty. It goes without...
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